Would the ending be better if this happened instead: Gus an Rosie turn around and see that Stanley is gone. They walk back to their parents and as they walk, they notice that there are more leaves growing on the trees while the parents are oblivious to what's happening. Meanwhile, Stanley is sitting on a tree, making Central Park (and Central Park only) green again.
@MusicalHell7 жыл бұрын
That sounds...kind of sweet, actually. I like that idea.
@Flowerbarrel6 жыл бұрын
My mom rented this for me when I was little. I either didn’t finish it before she took it back or forgot what happened and I thought it ended with Stanley still a statue. That was the first time I kinda liked a bad “ending”.
@KidSnivy696 жыл бұрын
Erik Valtierrez I know Diva is a demon, but even that seems like a cruel and unusual punishment.
@artemisfowldragon6 жыл бұрын
and then they get hit by a bus
@sesfilmsllc6 жыл бұрын
The movie would still suck. Minus the “ending”.
@Bobsheaux5 жыл бұрын
Oh my lord... I just thought of something horrible... Consider the fact that trolls have very limited knowledge of human beings, i.e. the hen-pecked king calling humans "creatures more troll-like than us." Also consider the standard body type for your average troll; short and chubby, the same descriptors that you would find in any human infant. Does Stanley's over-the-top reaction to Rosie kissing him come from his misinterpretation that she's actually a beautiful troll?? O_o
@kieranstark72135 жыл бұрын
Dude, you saw my comment and requested ElectricDragon505 to review the rest of the Don Bluth films he has not reviewed yet, eh?
@Tornado19945 жыл бұрын
So Stanley is attracted to Rosie because he thinks she's a Girl troll and doesn't realize she's a toddler? And yet he kisses her! Must be a Bobsheaux!
@MovieFan19122 жыл бұрын
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@AWasteOfYourTime820510 ай бұрын
Hi Bobby 👋
@ArloTheSilver5 жыл бұрын
The only thing I appreciate about this movie is the fact that Gus doesn’t hate his sister. Any other movie would’ve had Gus be annoyed and despise his baby sister because she’s little and she’s a girl and blah blah blah. But Gus does love his little sister and does his best to protect her. I always loved their relationship and I wish more big sibling characters actually cared about their siblings without ending up dead
@johnvinals74232 жыл бұрын
Probably would have hit better if Rosie had an actual personality.
@PhoenixRising872 жыл бұрын
@@johnvinals7423 She's, like...two. She's just starting to develop one. I second that it's good that her big brother loves her.
@Naharu.2 жыл бұрын
@@johnvinals7423 tbf, kids these age dont really have one. At best they have a favourite toy and movie
@johnvinals74232 жыл бұрын
@@PhoenixRising87 With that I agree. Especially compared to what a manipulative Nice Guy creep Hubie is in “Pebble and the Penguin”.
@orangeslash16672 жыл бұрын
soɔǝʇıdolɐɹʇsn∀ The problem is Thumbelina, troll, Pebble and the penguin we’re all made at the same time. Meaning that Don Bluth didn’t Have enough time to fix them.
@johnvinals74236 жыл бұрын
Someone really should write a fanfic dealing with the fallout of what Stanley did to New York in the ending.
@argonaut6406 жыл бұрын
"The one who did this to our beloved city...he is known only by one name: The Troll In Central Park."
@rainylupin6 жыл бұрын
Make it about a teenage or adult Gus, as well as a grown up and toughened Rosie, battling against the plants that have consumed the city, finding survivors and using Gus' thumb to bring inanimate objects to life to fight for them.
@MrWill90026 жыл бұрын
agreed
@vadifadoms6 жыл бұрын
Rainy Meadows That sound 10x more interesting than the legit movie.
@OfficeSpace29096 жыл бұрын
Excellent idea. That would be way more interesting than this sorry excuse of an animated musical.
@MrShoebox217 жыл бұрын
Poor Don Bluth. This was a man who gave us The Great Owl, T-rexes way scarier than ANYTHING Jurassic Park ever came up with, and con-artists rats in a deconstruction of the American West with a cast of furries...and he gave us THIS. A Mid-life crisis is never pretty. Oh, and Titan A.E. That one wasn't TOO bad.
@andrewollmann3046 жыл бұрын
Fievel Goes West wasn’t Bluth’s, but American Tail was.
@phoenixrage16 жыл бұрын
And borrowing from Disney aside, Anastasia was awesome. It's my favorite animated film.
@ryanc55725 жыл бұрын
I've always loved Titan AE.
@rachael10905 жыл бұрын
Titan AE is a personal favorite. We also have a severe lack of 2D animated sci-fi
@retrofan49634 жыл бұрын
Titan AE is a really cool film. But to me, An American Tail is my favorite.
@DrGregoryHouseIT7 жыл бұрын
So Stanley brings the apocalypse at the end... apparently Gnorga was Good All Along. Who knew?
@timothymclean6 жыл бұрын
"I told you that anyone who makes sentient plants and turns people into bushes is too dangerous to let live, but nobody believed me! Well, who's laughing now, you bastards?"
@phousefilms6 жыл бұрын
She wanted to turn him to stone and mainly just hung out in the Troll Kingdom, not bothering anyone but other trolls. That doesn't sound that evil to me.
@timothymclean6 жыл бұрын
Aside from the bit where she wants to turn people to stone.
@nykerianash15906 жыл бұрын
Timothy McLean Still let’s evil then Stanley
@WolfRider20028 ай бұрын
Perhaps the King knew that Stanley would do this, making the King the true mastermind villain of this movie
@theancientpyramhynx96795 жыл бұрын
That tricycle scene is actually really funny when you take it out of context
@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom65277 жыл бұрын
So I guess you can say this movie _trolled_ you
@WobblesandBean7 жыл бұрын
The little red haired girl from across the street I can hardly Stanley it. The film isn't all wine and Rosie.
@xxkewldudexx7 жыл бұрын
The little red haired girl from across the street Oh God, enough with the puns already! lol
@DeepEye19947 жыл бұрын
At least the movie starring you is a good film to show kids, little red haired girl from across the street.
@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom65277 жыл бұрын
DeepEye1994 Thanks
@Spameggssausage5 жыл бұрын
whoooooooooooo are you, who who who who
@Dalia17844 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Gus is voiced by Phillip Glasser, the original voice actor of Fievel from An American Tail.
@zackrules47972 жыл бұрын
Dom DeLuise was also in An American Tail, for the doing the voice of Tiger (which we can all agree it's a way better Don Bluth film then this!)
@carissacarlson14187 жыл бұрын
Great review. 7:17 To be fair, I think Rosie is meant to be a very young toddler (like a year old) since she tends to babble a lot and can only walk, so her being a bit clueless and stupid does make sense. I don't have any kids of my own, so I could be way off in that assumption. Then again, this is the reason why babies are hard to make compelling characters. They have little personality or agency, making them more of a plot device or something cute to distract the audience. Usually, I find that either making them older (like 10 or something) or going the Rugrats direction and making them have some intelligence works better. Also, Stanley having that reaction to a toddler pecking him on the nose is creepy as hell. (shutters)
@grainneorgracequinn28887 жыл бұрын
Carissa Carlson I think you're right either 1 or 2 at least
@daneiltherat23276 жыл бұрын
Carissa Carlson jack jack is a good baby character. As he's meant have the unlimited potential of a baby
@timothymclean6 жыл бұрын
Jack-Jack is also not really a character in his own right. He doesn't have any motivations or real agency; he just kind of sits around, then Syndrome takes him, and then he happens to Syndrome. (And there's a reason Rosie is the only one of this movie's main trio who doesn't get a Musical Hell punishment. Aside from watching her big brother's birthday clowns.)
@wastelandlegocheem6 жыл бұрын
Episode 790: A predator in central park
@KidSnivy696 жыл бұрын
Timothy McLean The second movie fixes a lot of that.
@elsie87577 жыл бұрын
Oh come on, the kids' dad looks almost exactly like Dimitri from Don Bluth's Anastasia!
@elsie87577 жыл бұрын
***** Her face is more Thumbelina, I think.
@LadyTylerBioRodriguez7 жыл бұрын
That was bothering me, right down to I think the clip they used was the same animation used in a scene in Anastasia. Man that would be depressing if Don Bluth had to lift aspects of Troll in Central Park for his last good movie.
@elsie87577 жыл бұрын
Tyler Bioshock R Wait, did this movie come BEFORE Anastasia? That makes it even weirder!
@LadyTylerBioRodriguez7 жыл бұрын
Elsie Not Giving You My Last Name Yeah, Don Bluth after Land Before Time is a very very strange thing.
@ejl4237 жыл бұрын
Consider the source.
@cfanimate73037 жыл бұрын
What's so particularly painful about the brilliantly dubbed Dork Age of Don Bluth movies is that they're executed so beautifully. The stories are practically first drafts and they're dopey and incoherent and doomed to fail, but the animation and effects used to tell them are fantastic. This wasn't one of those reviews I could just listen to while working because of that. It's particularly painful because it's so hard to get not only stable competition for Disney animation, but different storytelling styles. Even the best Don Bluth movies kind of "wander" a little and aren't as focused as a Disney-type movie would be, and it's not necessarily a bad thing.
@celestialVocalist5 жыл бұрын
I feel like if they had just been given more time to make the writing of movies like Thumbelina and this movie better, we would've gotten much better movies. It really is a shame for a great animator and film maker like Don Bluth go from making great films to making such bad ones. Though thankfully Anastasia was a great movie.
@eoghanfeighery73833 жыл бұрын
I say the Pebble and the Penguin is polarizing only because.....why give penguins TEETH?!
@orangeslash16672 жыл бұрын
Eoghan Feighery MGM came in and made a lot of changes.
@sophiaageitos41547 жыл бұрын
I don't think Thumbelina was as bad as Troll in Central Park
@KrazyKelor7 жыл бұрын
Because it wasn't. It was a weak wannabe Disney Princess knockoff, but it wasn't_this_.
@ejl4237 жыл бұрын
Exactly, as many problems as Thumbelina had, at least it wanted to try to tell a decent story rather than insult the audience's intelligence.
@CatHermit7 жыл бұрын
Sophia Ageitos AT least Thumbelina didn't have Gus in it I hate that kid.
@JorgensZelda6 жыл бұрын
Hexxus and his buttery Tim Curry voice?
@thomashuffman32375 жыл бұрын
Sophia Ageitos Yeah, even though it suffered many story issues, too many characters (ESPECIALLY JACQUIMO!!), and some pretty bad songs,Thumbelina at least tried to tell a good story, had nice animation, and some decent voice acting. A Troll in Central Park, on the other hand, was just a big half assed mess that clearly no one put any thought or effort into.
@Stephen-Fox7 жыл бұрын
I know it wouldn't have actually saved the film (Since... There's a lot of saving this film requires), but... If ever a story could have withstood, even benefited from, a bittersweet ending, it's this one - instead of giving the brat a magic thumb and him and his troll destroying NYC together... End it with the kids finding the statue. The Snowman (and 30 years later, the sequel The Snowman and the Snowdog), and how they've become staples in the British Christmas canon of short animation, beloved by both adults and children, proves that you can give children things that don't have entirely 100% happy endings and that if you handle them correctly that isn't going to be a problem (The trick is to handle them deftly, of course). Hell, use the fact that the boy's a complete brat as part of the narrative drive; imply he was going to turn into a troll, while adding onto lore that this is how most trolls come into being, and the change of heart from complete brat to protective older brother (which... I think is the arc they were going for?), so there's something that happens in the kids lives that wouldn't have happened without meeting Stanley (namely, the brother, in protecting the sister via a path of self growth, averts his path of becoming a troll) to give actual stakes that aren't essentially the fault of the Troll King not knowing about the existence of parks... There'd still be structural problems but you up the stakes that aren't indirectly the protagonist's fault, add a physical aspect to a character arc which can be useful visual shorthand, remove the oddity of the brat turning back into a kid at the end by making it thematically appropriate (Especially if the transformation is completed earlier by an act of self sacrifice rather than random curse), and by having Stanley permanently statuized there's still a cost to the adventure... ...The extra scenes to handle the extra emphasis on the boy's character growth of such a complete rewrite such would have necessitated, including both extending the body horror for kids stuff and the necessary exposition to communicate that lore would likely force the removal of some of work's filler, too, helping structurally...
@ViridianForests5 жыл бұрын
That would have made this interesting, entertaining and probably something I would've loved as a kid (shapeshifting of any kind was something I found beyond cool as a kid, and if well done, I still like even these days). This was, unfortunately, not what we got XD
@argonaut6407 жыл бұрын
Gus and Rosie: They're important because they are also the main characters. I also love how the ending is New York turning into an overgrown wasteland that seems more fitting for a Post-Apocalyptic video game.
@LadyTylerBioRodriguez7 жыл бұрын
Yep, so it was Stanley that created the Fallout universe... I see....
@arbiterskiss669211 ай бұрын
All we need is one dry summer, one spark, and it will go up like Atlanta, Georgia in 1864, London in 1666, and Rome in 64 AD.
@Pinka135 жыл бұрын
I literally just realized that "Llort" is *troll* spelled backwards -_-
@faithhill58864 жыл бұрын
Suddenly, I'm reminded of Troll 2 after learning that. "Nilbog! It's goblin spelled backwards!"
@PhoenixAlaris932 жыл бұрын
So this is what happened after he got his ass kicked in Zelda's Adventure on CD-i.
@MovieFan19122 жыл бұрын
(Facepalm)
@supermariof05217 жыл бұрын
I just thought of a hilarious Robot Chicken spoof called "An Internet Troll in Central Park".
@tracyallen91707 жыл бұрын
Where can I find that spoof? It sounds funny.
@slashermaster285 жыл бұрын
@@tracyallen9170 I know it's really late to respond to this, but that's not an actual Robot Chicken sketch. I think Fire was just pointing out that something like that would be perfect for Robot Chicken.
@supermariof05214 жыл бұрын
@@slashermaster28 Thanks for noticing, and yes I still think it would make for a hilarious "RC" sketch, or maybe even a KZbin Poop.
@Bobsheaux6 жыл бұрын
Good point in bringing up the dancing flower sequence from Fantasia, suggesting that dancing flowers don't HAVE to be pointless filler. HOWEVER... the giant baby sucking on her bottle directly behind them pretty much kills any artistic merit it might have; it's JUST here to shut up your kids. And since said giant baby is also the flowers' audience, anyone in the audience who's any degree older is just going to feel embarrassed or insulted to be here. Why, Mr. Bluth? Why?...
@patrickshields52516 жыл бұрын
Because he rushed production. That's why.
@eoghanfeighery73833 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! Rosie's reaction to it just undermines anything redeemable with the dancing flowers.
@dogryme67 жыл бұрын
*kids start floating away on balloons* "Are these kids too young to qualify for a darwin award? Asking for a friend." That made me laugh.
@connortripp996 жыл бұрын
Kid with a boat + balloons = (insert Stephen King jokes here)
@mickeyperkins5 жыл бұрын
Don Bluth’s animation is so beautiful. Why did he have to use it for evil?
@tylerfish27012 жыл бұрын
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made". -J.R.R. Tolkien
@EternalYorkieMom3 жыл бұрын
I was today years old when I recognized Diva was on Jeopardy!! She definitely swept the musical category!! I actually looked and she won twice! Good for her!
@ArtisticQuinn3095 Жыл бұрын
Are you sure?
@michaelboydston3133 жыл бұрын
i feel that this movie would need a complete overhaul to make it good, so here is what i would do: a very little girl is playing in central park purposely kicking up the grass and tears up a flower bed causing her parents to punish her by forcing her to sit on a bench until she genuinely apologizes for the damage or it is time to leave, an old gardener named Gus comes over to tell her about how important the flowers are, as they create memories and can be important to peoples' lives, and the magic they hold, tell her his story of central park. when Gus was a teenager, he was terrible person with not many good friends due to the death of his mother, he runs off in the middle of the night to wander central park, when he was little his mother took him there to have fun. on one of these nights, he comes across a troll, he is scared of it and runs away in fear until he sprains his leg. the troll reaches him and creates wood and vines in order to create an impromptu splint, and he realizes the troll is the reason plants grow there and begins to come out during the night to help the troll preserve the beauty of central park, slowly becoming a better person as the troll shows him motherly love, creating a bond between the two, similar to Gus and his mother. at one point the troll is killed by some guy trashing the park, Gus begins to weep over the loss of his friend and mother figure, he holds her hand and a glow travels from her hand to his, before her body fades into the ground. over the next couple of months central park slowly dies, he begins to remember his mother and the troll, remembering his happy memories of them as he picks a wilting petunia, and it begins to perk up, so he decides to try to take care of the park and becomes a gardener for the park. the movie ends returning to modern day, the little girl understands the importance of central park and genuinely apologizes for the damage she caused her parents hearing this let her off the bench, and Gus begins to take care of the damaged flowers as a soft glow comes from his hands and the flowers are good as new. The End.
@ThomasFan-vd3uz2 жыл бұрын
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s character development! We don’t know that much about the characters, only their personalities, Thumbelina and The Pebble and The Penguin tried to show us their characters development by showing them the problems they had to face in order for them to be better characters. This movie just gives us characters singing, dancing, complaining, and do nothing to advance the plot or help us learn more about them.
@rzum816 жыл бұрын
Would have made more sense to put Stanley somewhere like the North Pole where plants like flowers can’t grow because it’s so cold.
@MusicalHell6 жыл бұрын
This movie would have been a lot better if it had been eighty minutes of Stanley on an ice floe. And then he gets eaten by a polar bear.
@rzum815 жыл бұрын
Musical Hell haha yes!
@colleen4ever7 жыл бұрын
8:30- God, movie, ya couldn't just make Stanley blush or something?
@1andonlyzara5 жыл бұрын
Give the Nutcracker scene from Fantasia some credit! At least that movie wasn’t SUPPOSED to have a story!
@LadyTylerBioRodriguez7 жыл бұрын
You know not a day goes by that I am not amused that they snuck in quite a few Disney cameos into Enchanted. Its awesome as hell to have Jodi Benson, Judy Kuhn, and Belle herself Paige O'Hara in live action. Just saying, it was a nice touch.
@DerekPower5 жыл бұрын
O hai Tyler ;) =]
@SaintCharlos5 жыл бұрын
4:08 _I believe Llort secretly didn't want to punish Stanley at all (He was good and kind, unlike his wife), and thus, he wanted the flowery troll to live a better life._
@metademetra5 жыл бұрын
Congratulations! You thought about this more than the entire Sullivan Bluth team!
@andysee69962 жыл бұрын
If I had the ability to rewrite A Troll in Central Park from scratch, it would be made clear that it was an intentional Batman Gambit on Llort's part since he knew way more about the human world than Gnorga did.
@alexmeyer52607 жыл бұрын
At least Dom DeLuise was also in a good Don Bluth movie: The Secret Of NIMH.
@TheBranMan1007 жыл бұрын
And the Land Before Time
@bored_person7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, he played the worst character in that movie.
@alexmeyer52607 жыл бұрын
ijfharvey In The Secert Of NIMH? I thought Jeremy was a funny character in that movie.
@bored_person7 жыл бұрын
Alex Meyer I didn't, but whatever.
@TheBranMan1007 жыл бұрын
ultraofrahfan1 Yeah. I forgot, at first I thought he was talking about actual good Don Bluth movies well its because I wasn't even looking... Again, I truly apologize.
@EsmeAmelia7 жыл бұрын
How this movie ever got greenlit (and by Don Bluth of all people) is a mystery that will forever remain unsolved.
@billybarnett95187 жыл бұрын
I feel like this movie had potential, just tone down the main character, and give us a reason to dislike the villain, and don't make the kids brats.
@masterfarr82653 жыл бұрын
you could make Stanley someone who wants to be evil but keeps messing up till he gets banished for his failure. He tries making Venus flytraps he ends making flowers. I'd also change the design to look less vomit inducing.
@HenshinHeroesMedia3 жыл бұрын
Would be cool to see stanley look like a villain but you're cut off guard by his sweet nature attitude. Then, give him a moment where his monsterous tendencies like monster rage rise when he thinks he lost his child friends. Then the kids stop him similar to how the kid from the iron giant stopped said title character
@sewthernbelle7 жыл бұрын
Be careful Diva. Don Bluth's death glare is the stuff of legends...just ask the Nostalgia Critic...lol
@joyunicycle7 жыл бұрын
It may scare that mortal, but can it scare a demon?
@garchomplord50815 жыл бұрын
joyunicycle it could scare a god
@Indigodelta3837 жыл бұрын
Great Scot! I've seen Care Bears less sugary than this
@isobelmiller74646 жыл бұрын
In the words of PhantomStrider: "I saw this movie when I was seven, FREAKING SEVEN, and found it too sappy, and I still liked Care Bears!"
@dunes88177 жыл бұрын
You'd think his "green thumb" would come up a lot sooner and that he'd bump into the troll authorities a whole lot sooner considering how his powers work.
@WobblesandBean7 жыл бұрын
Dunes8 And for that matter, where did he come from? Did his parents know? What does he even DO, anyway? Do trolls even have jobs?
@doctoquack78296 жыл бұрын
Random request. Tom and Jerry The Movie. Yes it is a musical.
@Mochitachi703 жыл бұрын
I feel like Diva should have done a bait-and-switch joke on her Superman musical review, due to the HBO incident where they uploaded The Snyder Cut instead of the new T&M movie.
@abigailloggins58446 жыл бұрын
Aww she did not touch on I'M A BAD TROLL
@MrNico4945 жыл бұрын
Abigail Loggins I think it speaks for itself
@thomashuffman32375 жыл бұрын
Abigail Loggins Yeah, she should have put that on the sin count, since that would qualify as asinine dialogue.
@ninavale.4 жыл бұрын
I think Rosie is this oblivious because she's 2 years old at the most...I mean she talks very little and in a very simple way like the words we hear from her are her name, her brother's name and small greetings like 'Hi'. and I think that Don Blueth tried to make her a realistic child her age(for cuteness) so she doesn't do very much or show much intelligence. Though inadvertently he made the housemaid and the parents really scary people because who the heck just leaves a two year old unattended like this? Seriously this is a development stage where you still have some gates and barriers around your house and you lock the front doors and windows so the kid won't waddle away or fall out
@alexanderfix36297 жыл бұрын
According to the website and books, one is only eligible for a Darwin Award if they are an adult (the usual cutoff age is 16) who should be capable of making sound decisions. So Gus and Rosie are ineligible. Still doesn't stop me from wanting to smack the whining little brat for his general attitude and endangering his sister. Rosie, I'll forgive since she looks about one or two years old, but not Gus. Who pretty much got rewarded for demanding attention from his father, and was never punished for sneaking out, taking his sister to a place where they could have easily been kidnapped or injured, and getting them involved with dangerous supernatural creatures.
@tracyallen91707 жыл бұрын
I agree. That's disappointing that the father didn't punish his son for sneaking out. Gus is an example of how NOT to create a kid hero.
@SaraHouck4616 жыл бұрын
tracy allen Man...it's no wonder having to handle frequent babysitterstuckness should've been an absolute blessing for me instead of a curse like I often made it out to be, regardless of how often I was bullied by other kids who had to be babysat at that same residence!
@tazzreviews15785 жыл бұрын
If they wanted to send Stanley to a place where he couldn’t grow flowers, why not send him to Antarctica or an abandoned oil rig?
@jaschabull23655 жыл бұрын
Would you really want him to end up in a sequel/prequel to The Pebble And The Penguin?
@tazzreviews15785 жыл бұрын
Well, shit. That never came across my mind.
@Justanotheruselessaccount2 ай бұрын
Because stupid does what stupid does
@SariaSchala7 жыл бұрын
Based on Nostalgia Critic's review of this film, I figure the only character who got any development was the father who realized he should try to spend some time with his son, and we didn't get to see any of that...
@KaeMcSpadden7 жыл бұрын
This movie looks like something a five year old came up with.
@redpillfreedom66923 жыл бұрын
Which is giving it more credit than it deserves. Even 5 year olds would probably find this boring
@Nightman221k7 жыл бұрын
I choked on the water I was drinking laughing when you said, "Is there any way this could be more disturbing?" and followed it with Gustave's orgasming, "YES!!!" from the shitty Phantom sequel.
@laurahugillofficial6 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or do Gus and Rosie’s parents look like Dimitri and Anastasia from the movie Anastasia?
@retrofan49634 жыл бұрын
And to think this film came before Anastasia.
@candycane17444 жыл бұрын
More like thumbelina and the prince
@SailorMoonFriends3 жыл бұрын
Cale Tucker from Titan After Earth also looks like Dimitri except with blonde hair
@lizzychrome76305 жыл бұрын
And this is why when someone says something online that is too obnoxious to warrant a real response, I say, "I've seen better trolls in Central Park."
@jeremyusreevu2374 жыл бұрын
The Don Bluth films reviewed on this show (Except for Rock A Doodle) are living proof that just because a film has good animation doesn't mean that it's actually good.
@harmonetheanimationaddict44194 жыл бұрын
At least the animation is the usual Don Bluth quality, so you gotta give the animators some credit.
@marystone15266 жыл бұрын
Gnorga on a Tricycle dressed like a Valkyrie was the best part, hands down. Two petrifying thumbs up.
@foreverdead12486 жыл бұрын
Woah it's proto-Dimitri. Never really figured out where the Anastasia/Titan AE style came from because it seems to differ so much from the animal based films, but now I can see where it got going
@LaDracul7 жыл бұрын
This is not like Will Ferrell as James Lipton said, "Like God looking upon you and saying 'You are my greatest creation'"...more like, "Like God looking upon you and saying 'I hate you'".
@Shades147 жыл бұрын
Why does the dad look almost exactly like Dimitri from Anastasia?
@Flowerbarrel7 жыл бұрын
Dimitri's descendant? The pieces fall into place.
@joyunicycle7 жыл бұрын
Dimitri cheated on his family for a princess.
@CaffeineDeprivation7 жыл бұрын
So THAT'S why he never has time to take Gus to the park...
@Frisby20076 жыл бұрын
The Shady Reviewer jokes aside, it was actually the same animator AS Dimitri before Anastasia came out.
@credinzel69966 жыл бұрын
The Shady Reviewer And why does Dimitri look like Cale?
@newbiegamelover47674 жыл бұрын
9:20 Hey, hey, hey! Guys? The girl you're trying to cheer up? She's right behind you! You're suppose to *face* the audience you're performing for, not turn away from them!
@phousefilms7 жыл бұрын
13:04, I think you mean Adele Dazeem. Lmao, just the pause and "On a fucking tricycle." made be break down crying laughing.
@Bobsheaux5 жыл бұрын
Does Don Bluth do commentaries? We REALLY need to know what the mentality was behind this movie...
@beethovensfidelio5 жыл бұрын
Bobsheaux He did one for the Anastasia DVD.
@mixwidman54585 жыл бұрын
The last song of this film should be called “don’t feed the plants”.
@shadow_raven19832 жыл бұрын
I think the shot of Stanley at 9:27 sums up this entire movie, especially his facial expression.
@morgangobin65507 жыл бұрын
I think you could have given a much more severe punishment to Stanley. How about...a porcupine that grows out of his anus and then transforms into a T-Rex that devours him. ;) It's NC approved!
@isobelmiller74645 жыл бұрын
The Dancing Flowers scene was apparently the movie's Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. Big-Lipped Alligator Moments are essentially entertaining filler, so if you're going to have one, make sure you can still fit in all the scenes that are necessary for plot advancement and character development. I've heard Ed, Edd n' Eddy's Big Picture Show was going to have a scene where the Eds drink expired gravy, which causes them to have a claymation fever dream. However, there wasn't enough time for it, so they did the reasonable thing and scrapped it. It wouldn't really be smart to keep that scene and remove the scene where Eddy confesses that he's been lying about his brother and admits why he's such a jerk, now, would it? The "Pink Elephants" scene from Dumbo, while one of the most memorable parts of the movie, really didn't do anything for the overall plot of the movie. It didn't forward the story, it didn't develop any of the characters, it was just there, and then it was gone. However, at the very least, it didn't get in the way of the scenes that WERE important to the plot. All the pieces were there even with that one pointless scene. Sadly, this movie was not as competent as these.
@jaschabull23655 жыл бұрын
To be fair, while the hallucinations themselves don't do much in Dumbo, they technically occur during Dumbo's first ever flight (which he inadvertently embarks on whilst drunk as a lord), so at least it kind of advanced the plot, if semi-indirectly.
@isobelmiller74645 жыл бұрын
@@jaschabull2365 Well, it's been years since I've seen the movie. Also, get this: I spent Spring Break at my grandfather's house, and there were a bunch of children's books in the childhood rooms of my mom and her siblings, and I found a book version of Dumbo, which replaced the "Pink Elephants" scene with Dumbo going to sleep and dreaming a happy dream about being the star of the circus. I guess I can understand why they did that. I mean, it was a book for children, while the movie is for all ages.
@nifralo27525 жыл бұрын
Dumbo dosent really have a narrative like Pinochio it's very episodic
@isobelmiller74645 жыл бұрын
@@nifralo2752 It's still a continuing story.
@kittylover626 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was the Don Bluth animation or something, but this was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Looking back on it now, WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!?!?!?
@rainbow.fr0g5 жыл бұрын
“I wanna do what I wanna do” what’s with the dialog in this movie? Edit:does anyone else think the dad look like Dimitri from Anastasia.
@lilliedoubleyou38657 жыл бұрын
Hooray! I'd been wondering where those *Spaceballs* clips had gone to.
@patrickb1257 жыл бұрын
May I remind you that Enchanted came out 15 years after this movie?
@patrickb1257 жыл бұрын
Can you review Hannah Montana: The Movie?
@MusicalHell7 жыл бұрын
I'm aware of that; I wasn't trying to imply this movie was copying off Enchanted (or vice versa) but to note how the two movies told very similar stories, only one did it a lot better.
@tatehildyard53327 жыл бұрын
What did you think of La La Land BTW? Like t enough to possibly enough to give it a highlight on Know the Score?
@patrickb1257 жыл бұрын
I get it now, and my other question?
@MusicalHell7 жыл бұрын
It's possible--I haven't thought of that one in a long time!
@tristanclose58033 жыл бұрын
Great review! I remember seeing this when I was about 5 or 6, and I remember very distinctly how uncomfortable it made me feel.
@dubitataugustinus Жыл бұрын
I watched this film in VHS when I was very, VERY young. The Bluth style attracted me, since I had seen better movies of his (when I was even tinier, I was happily traumatized by Secret of Nimh and An American Tail). Because I was a little spooky kid, I was so so excited to see the beginning of this film, with so much dark and gritty pseudo-gothic imagery. I was like "Ooh, I wonder what horrors we'll see on this one!." Aaaaaand then Gnorga started singing. Aaaaaand the next 90% of the film it's a disgustingly cutesy lullaby for babies. I knew at 8 that I was watching an ATROCIOUS and CRINGY mess. I felt intense anger and disappointment and barely understood why. It is THAT bad.
@timothymclean4 жыл бұрын
7:54: And if they have that kind of reaction to a character of their own gender, the audience is divided into gay-shippers, no-homo-ers, and people who are sick of the shipping wars and want to just talk about the plot or themes or whatever.
@davidspring40036 жыл бұрын
Stanley’s abilities being vaguely defined basically mean this universe operates on “Soft magic” rules. Basically, magic can do whatever the author wants because...it’s magic. We don’t have to explain it. The only problem is that this sort of magic only works when it’s in the background of the story and used sparingly. Like Chronicles of Narnia (Where the rules are STILL better explained than here) or Lord of the Rings (Not sure if it applies to the Silmarillion, but Gandalf basically only uses his power against the Balrog throughout the series and we see...hints...of it otherwise.)
@nifralo27525 жыл бұрын
So would Harry Potter be hard magic then as it has hard rules and limitations
@SaraHouck4616 жыл бұрын
5:54 Man, it's no wonder having to spend time at a daycare should've been an absolute blessing instead of a curse like I often made it out to be because of how often I was bullied by other kids who had to share the facility!
@daliborjovanovic5104 жыл бұрын
Producer: Mr. Deluise? Would you perchance be interested to take a role in our animated- DeLuise: Yes. Producer: ....um...I didn't say which animated- DeLuise: You had me at "animated". I'm in. Producer: ....okay then?
@MrsJohnsonListing5 жыл бұрын
I happen to have fond memories of all the Bluth films you've dragged :p I actually liked Rockadoodle, Thumbelina, Pebble and the Penguin, and Troll in Central Park. I haven't seen any of them in years, of course. But what I remember of them, I loved
@dunes88177 жыл бұрын
Love how the dad ends up kinda looking like the stock Bluth male protagonist.
@Inlelendri6 жыл бұрын
Dunes8 It gets even better when you consider how mismatched the dad (and mom) then looks compared to the kids. The styles don’t match up at all and while that can work, it’s jarring when it’s supposed to be their kids.
@grainneorgracequinn28887 жыл бұрын
I just realised the ending is technically dark😐
@Meggsie6 жыл бұрын
I feel like he was in an artistic rut and tried to force through it instead of taking a short hiatus. It happens to the best of us
@MrNico4945 жыл бұрын
16:38 Ok seriously, how is it that the parents don’t question the destruction of the park / area at all? They must have visited the park at least once in their life to be able to see the drastic change.
@kvc4315 жыл бұрын
I really think that this would’ve been something happily remembered if it was a half an hour special on Nick Jr. it really feels like something that was made for the under five crowd.
@timothymclean5 жыл бұрын
The animation isn't _bad,_ but I don't think it's up to Bluth par. The backgrounds are great, but everything else looks kinda flat, and sometimes it looks like things that _should_ be touching and interacting _aren't._
@elchanchopato96013 жыл бұрын
"I don't know, what do YOU want to do? I know, let's sing and dance like dummies!" - Numbuh 4, describing this movie in a nutshell
@triforceninja136 жыл бұрын
*sees ending of the movie* Poison Ivy: I can’t un-orgasam myself!!!
@Remythechef4 жыл бұрын
You made me love enchanted all over again with this
@MusicalHell4 жыл бұрын
My work here is done.
@brandyloutherback92887 жыл бұрын
Hi, Troll in Central Park, Snow White called and told you to get on with the plot!
@andysmith58064 жыл бұрын
I mean, Ponyo made a boat grow. Though, I guess that makes more sense because she’s a magic fish girl whose dad is ginger Liam Neeson and boats have to do with water.
@MSTe987 жыл бұрын
Man, you're writing is sharp as a spit! Especially loved the Age of Aquarius reference.
@madcapmakov25 жыл бұрын
So Stanley caused the floral/fungal apocalypse in The Last Of Us.
@colleen4ever7 жыл бұрын
7:09- Well, to be fair I think Rosie is only 2 or 3 at the most, so it's pretty normal for her to make mistakes like that. She doesn't know any better.
@marksalmoneussorcerersupreme5 жыл бұрын
Watches Flowers dancing. ME: OH MY GOD DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT!
@smlli7 жыл бұрын
it seems it could be quite cool if you shifted things around (and less like enchanted) 1 tired of the other trolls snook out and ended up in the ny (maybe kids back yard here you cover the not in Kansas moments. if shorter tho) 2 they sneak him to the park (he finds it wonderful, keep the parents here.) 3 green thumb to enchanting plants (all the plants make his power go hay wire, cue original ending as oops conflict) (maybe he turns in to a statur/bush here) 4 kids visit evil queen to solve plot (maybe too long on troll world makes you on or queens curse) 5 kids move queen and happy ever after (some song about individuality and queen makes every thing better and allows troll to sneak out for ice-cream) (she cant bring him back¿) 6 meanwhile parent come home to find children gone and find them in central park. (lingering troll-ness brings him back to life coz magic) not perfect but sounds feasible (its just an idea any way)
@mintstarmari4 жыл бұрын
They should have made multiple story drafts before starting the animation. I mean, there was more potential to this film. If Stanley was less hyperactive, the kids weren’t bratty and learned about the importance of their parents’s hard work and he only grew flowers in convenient places instead of covering the entire city... It’s like baking a cake but mistakenly putting a whole bag of sugar in the mix then bringing it to the cake shop instead of trying again.
@brookewells72087 жыл бұрын
Hey diva! What do you think about Cats Don't Dance ?
@hypnojon326 жыл бұрын
I wanted to say, I've bee watching your stuff before bed the last couple of nights and have officially become a fan. You're very funny. My fave parts here: Riding the f***ing tricycle... and your Enchanted parallel. An you are absolutely right! Interesting add ons: A lot of Enchanted musical numbers are in...Central Park! And here's an interestng question... so who...cribbed off who??
@bjnboy7 жыл бұрын
One animated musical I'd LOVE to see you tackle next is 'Tom and Jerry: The Movie'. :-D
@joyunicycle7 жыл бұрын
Please rip it to shreds!!! It was bad enough making them talk for 80 minutes, but the songs are like something a four year old would write.
@diegobareno58202 жыл бұрын
Gus was voiced by Phillip Glasser who was Fievel in the original American Tail. He had to be like 16 when this came out.
@jasonsiscos27884 жыл бұрын
9:25 I think the nostalgia critic is right this is a parody of a kid’s movie.
@reyfan0115 жыл бұрын
I first watched this when I was in kindergarten and yeah I didn’t pay attention to how bad the movie was. But one thing that always stuck with me about this movie was the villain song. Gnorga’s queen of mean song is kinda catchy to me.
@ultrafox40056 жыл бұрын
I had a feeling you would point out how this ending was like the bad ending to Little Shop Of Horrors.
@Spameggssausage7 жыл бұрын
Gus should have to deal with Pennywise!
@joyunicycle7 жыл бұрын
"They float. They all float. And when he's down here with me, HE'LL FLOAT TOO!"
@nicholasdruce53463 жыл бұрын
Stanley should deal with Chris Hansen.
@josephrowe849 Жыл бұрын
A bratty young boy with a sister named Rosie? Where have I heard that before? 🤔
@CaptainPeregrin3 жыл бұрын
I imagine somebody noticed the horrifying implications of the ending, but they hated Stanley (or the movie) so much by then that they chose not to tell Bluth that Stanley caused the apocalypse.
@AWasteOfYourTime820510 ай бұрын
7:21 I think is waaaaaaay more disturbing 💀💀💀
@haileybalmer97222 жыл бұрын
I feel like Don Bluth and Company were being pressured at the time to kind of cut back on the scary stuff and focus more on appealing to kids my age. As a second grader who had long since and many times sat through Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven, I did not care to be pandered to. I abandoned Thumbelina part of the way through to go do homework instead, and I didn't even bother with A Troll in Central Park. I remember exclaiming "oh BARF" at the trailer.
@colleen4ever7 жыл бұрын
Diva, you've done it again! Amazing review! I'm definitely gonna keep recommending you to Channel Awesome. I think you'd be a great addition to it!
@Oscar954517 жыл бұрын
This movie is written by J. David Stem and David N. Weiss, the writer of All Dogs go to Heaven, Rock-A-Doodle, Shrek 2, the Rugrats movies and The Smurfs live-action movies. Both were Don Bluth screenwriters, until the day that Don Bluth Studios was bought by News Corporation (20th Century Fox), relocated in Phoenix, Arizona and rebranded as Fox Animation Studios. Stem and Weiss become freelance, starting with The Rugrats Movie.
@garthst.claire34597 жыл бұрын
I love these ^-^. i remember a Troll in central park from when I was like 7? It was the first thing I can remember as being "too saccharine" for me. it's a shame Bluth got so bad about picking scripts for his projects, I wish he would have created some more truly memorable and good movies like Secret of Nimh/All American Tail/Land before Time. Though Anastasia isn't that bad either. Btw any chance you'll do Quest for Camelot soon?
@harrietamidala16917 жыл бұрын
To her eternal regret.
@garthst.claire34597 жыл бұрын
***** Yup she sure did. Kaylee is a textbook example on how not to write a good protagonist. And that's just one of the many reasons Quest for Camelot deserves to be taken to court. Hahaha
@tracyallen91707 жыл бұрын
+Garth St.Claire I agree. It needs to be put on trial for its crimes. The Pebble and the Penguin should be on trial as well.
@thomashuffman32375 жыл бұрын
Katie Lewis You mean the Lauren Faust behind MLP Friendship is Magic and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends?
@KFrost-fx7dt Жыл бұрын
The story is about parental neglect. Gus is sucking his thumb at the end as the parents barely give a frick that their children ran away, nearly died and returned traumatized. Breaks my heart.